The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies, Volume II [electronic resource] /
Cefalu, Paul.editor.
Kuchar, Gary.editor.
Reynolds, Bryan.editor.
This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and historical phenomenology.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Posthumanism; 1 "Hello Everything": Renaissance/Post/Human; 2 Mad Madge's Bestiary: Philosophical Animals and Physiognomic Philosophers in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World; 3 The Bee and the Sovereign (II): Segments, Swarms, and the Shakespearean Multitude; Part II: Ecocriticism; 4 Early Modern Ecocriticism; 5 Horticulture of the Head: The Vegetable Life of Hair in Early Modern English Thought; 6 The Private Lives of Trees and Flowers; Part III: Historical Phenomenology
7 Shakespearean Softscapes: Hospitality, Phenomenology, Design8 Describing the Sense of Confession in Hamlet; 9 "'Tis insensible then?": Time, Language, and Action in 1 Henry IV; 10 'We Prove Mysterious by This Love': John Donne and the Intimacy of Flesh; Part IV: Historicism Now; 11 Milton, Habermas, and the Dynamics of Debate; 12 The Sidney Psalter and the Spiritual Economies of Abundance; 13 The Empedoclean Renaissance; Selected Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This companion volume to The Return of Theory in Early Modern English Studies: Tarrying with the Subjunctive exemplifies the new directions in which the field is going as well as the value of crossing disciplinary boundaries within and beyond the humanities. Topics studied include posthumanism, ecological studies, and historical phenomenology.
Literature, Modern.
Literature-Philosophy.
British literature.
Literature, Medieval.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Literary Theory.
British and Irish Literature.
Medieval Literature.